Re: A tale of waiting

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 12:09 +0300, Dirk-Jan Binnema wrote:
> 
> 
> 2009/6/26 Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>
>         On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 10:25 +0200, Jernej Simončič wrote:
>         >> On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:12:05 +0200, Kristian Rietveld
>         wrote:
>         >>
>         >> I don't know about Linux, but on Windows the native chooser
>         displays large
>         >> directories almost instantly, while the GTK+ one is very
>         slow (eg.
>         >> directory with 970 images takes about 2 seconds to display
>         in the native
>         >> file chooser, while in GTK+'s it takes 12 seconds).
>         
>         
>         > Except that the Windows explorer actually has knowledge of
>         the
>         > filesystem itself. This was mentioned and discussed with
>         Darin Adler
>         > (very many years ago, as he mentioned he got that
>         information from the
>         > BeFS developer (Italian lad, whose name escapes me right
>         now)).
> 
> For a little fs-specific trick on Linux: If you actually have to
> *open* the files (e.g, for sniffing), you can make things quite a bit
> faster by sorting the files in order of inode first, if you are on
> ext3 (and ext4 I suppose, as well as other hashed-b-tree supporting
> file systems). I got around 40% improvement.

Gio already does this.